Sentence examples for boredom her from inspiring English sources
(She also frequently modeled for Manet: That is she in "The Balcony," leaning on a green railing with a look of typically bourgeois boredom). Her women make social calls, read in the city's new parks, head to the opera or the theater.
The mother of the letters awaits always her daughter's too-rare and too-brief replies; she alludes to deadly boredom, her suffering an apparent function of the separation at hand.
She talks about her friends, family, mentors, chores, her boredom, her dreams, her longings -- even the weather.
She shows her regret, her boredom, her delight, but she also shows herself in the process of changing her mind: She even remembers "defending defunct ideas that changed me as though / they were people in the room I might / unwittingly offend".
The kernel of the story is a melodrama involving her uncle Jamie, who rescues her first from the boredom of her childhood illness and then, later, from grief after the sudden death of her father.
Neel grew up in a small suburb of Philadelphia, where her overbearing mother and debilitating boredom cultivated her rebellious spirit.
She has no explanation for her affair other than a vague sense of boredom, and her black friends resent the lack of racial solidarity the men in her life display by having fallen for her.
She doesn't drink well, and has probably taken to it out of boredom with her much older hsband, who isn't listening to her and is treating her like a child.
The New Yorker, July 6 , 1946P. 11 We noticed a Western Union messenger in a nylon line on Fifth Avenue the other day-a middle-aged woman with a look of candid boredom on her face and a sheaf of undelivered telegrams in her hand.
Among the evening's many robustly funny moments is his interminable speech to Elena about the local topography and demographics, through which she squirms in distraction, blank boredom in her glazed eyes, terror at the confusion of feelings in her heart making it impossible to concentrate.
Sensory deprivation and killing boredom break her spirit.
